Karnataka: Vijayendra, Ashoka arrested as BJP lays seige to CM's home over MUDA, Valmiki scam, price hikes
Karnataka BJP president BY Vijayendra, leader of opposition R Ashoka, and several party workers were detained by the police on Wednesday as they tried to lay seige to chief minister Siddaramaiah's home in Bengaluru to a protest to protest the alleged Valmiki Development Corporation scam and the recent fuel and milk price hike. The leaders also demanded a CBI inquiry and the CM's resignation in connection with alleged irregularities in Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA).
“We will continue our demonstrations. In the next stage, we will protest inside the Houses of the state legislature until the cases are handed over to the CBI. The CM should resign,” Ashoka said after the protest. The BJP, he added, wanted the contentious allocation of sites to be cancelled immediately. “More than 86,000 people have applied to MUDA for sites. They did not get them. They are still waiting for sites. But the CM was allotted a site in a jiffy,” he said.
The government, Vijayendra alleged, was protecting MUDA officials by just transferring, not suspending, them. “They are trying to cover up corruption. We will protest across the state,” he added.
The alleged MUDA scam began in Siddaramaiah’s home district Mysuru, when MUDA allocated lands to people who had given up their plots to the authorities for development projects. While the government had introduced a 50:50 scheme to provide land losers 50% of the developed layout land in lieu of the land acquired from them, allegations have emerged of bogus beneficiaries also getting
